At this time, he no longer called himself an old man, and began to call Lu Hongwei a general, which was completely condescending! But how could Lu Hongwei let go of this opportunity to pursue and fight fiercely? Instead, he loudly said to the people: "I have the last civil official card here. Do you want to see it?"
The people immediately shouted loudly: "I want to see it!" "I want to see it!"
Hou Fangtai and the others became even more flustered after hearing this! They have already guessed that a fatal blow is about to come, but they don't know what kind of blow it will be?
Lu Hongwei waved his hand, and the two captains took out a roll of proclamations and started pasting them on the wall! This announcement is very big. It is four pieces of announcement paper put together to form one big announcement!
Everyone looked up and saw that the names and official positions were densely written on it. About three people's names were circled with a pen, and the names of the rest were marked with picks! As soon as this notice was posted, the gentry and the common people were stunned. They didn't understand what was going on with this round and round selection.
Lu Hongwei went up and explained at the right time: "Has everyone read this notice clearly? I can tell you what it says on it? What it says on it is a list of all the officials who participated in the private allocation of imperial funds!"
The people were in an uproar after hearing this! Oh my god, it turned out that so many officials were involved in the feast of privately dividing the money for building river embankments, so there was another round of yelling and swearing immediately! And even the gentry who had been mentally prepared before felt frightened and thought these people were crazy! How could that amount of money be shared by so many people? No wonder Jin Yiwei was directly targeting him!
Lu Hongwei waved his hand for everyone to quiet down, and then said loudly: "So many officials are greedy for money to build river embankments, and I am very angry! But what makes me even more angry is that I can't arrest them all! Therefore, I am telling you that those whose names are circled are those who are on the list of arrests! Those whose names are circled only need to return the dirty silver and receive a warning from the court to pass the test!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the people started rioting! What the common people have been looking forward to all their lives is to kill all the corrupt officials and have the emperor send them a blue sky master! But now when I see that many corrupt officials have embezzled a lot of money and yet managed to avoid being caught, I naturally roar loudly!
All of a sudden, voices like "Catch them!" and "Kill them all!" came out endlessly! And a louder voice asked: "Why not arrest them?"
Lu Hongwei signaled everyone to calm down and then said: "I also want to arrest them all, but I really can't! If we arrest them all, many places will not have anyone who can speak. If the local government If there is no one to deal with the problem, it will lead to a huge disaster! So we can only let them go!"
When the people heard this explanation, they expressed their disapproval! Someone shouted: "If we go to the sea and clear the river tomorrow, nothing will happen!"
Some people even said: "If there are no officials, we can choose some local officials who have become official, or senior citizens can take charge!"
Some people even said: "We can transfer some officials from the neighboring provinces to take charge!"
Some simply said directly: "There are a lot of local Jinshi people, let them work out!"
Seeing the chaotic scene in front of him, Lu Hongwei smiled proudly! But he quickly stopped smiling without being noticed! Then he pressed down hard with both hands, signaling everyone to quiet down! When everyone calmed down and looked at him, he suddenly made a deep bow to Hou Fangtai and others!
It didn't matter if they bowed to each other, but Hou Fangtai and others were frightened! Although at their age and status, it is nothing special to be bowed to by Lu Hongwei! But bowing to them at this time is definitely not a good thing!
Sure enough, Lu Hongwei stood up straight and said loudly: "Originally, I wanted to let these people go so that they could change their minds and work for the court! But wise men like Mr. Hou woke me up! But what if I let them go? Isn't it against the law? So I decided to eliminate all evil and immediately send people to arrest all the officials who committed crimes! Now it seems that having gentry like Mr. Hou in our city is a blessing to the people! So you just watch. , I will definitely arrest all the criminals!"
Hearing his words, the people were stunned at first. The reason why they were stunned was because they still remembered that Mr. Hou
Aren't we here to accuse Jin Yiwei of framed and indiscriminately arresting officials? Why did you wake up these Jin Yiwei? Could it be that Mr. Hou and the others discovered in advance that Jin Yiwei was planning to let a large number of corrupt officials go, so they came to stop them?
But then they cheered loudly! Oops, I can’t control that much! Anyway, catching corrupt officials is a good thing! They all squandered the money they spent on building the river embankment. If something happened to the river embankment, it would be a life-threatening matter! Therefore, we must catch all these corrupt officials! So just like what Mr. Jin Yiwei said, we are really blessed to have gentlemen like Mr. Hou by our side!
But when those gentry and scholars heard this, they suddenly changed their colors! Because this is not a benefit worth bragging about at all, but a prelude to bad luck!
There are about 70 or 80 people on the civil official list who have not been arrested, and according to Lu Hongwei, these people will probably return the dirty money and nothing will happen! But Hou Fangtai and the others led people to cause trouble, forcing Jin Yiwei to reveal a list of people to arrest. Then all these people who would have been fine would be imprisoned!
Maybe they can all be released from prison in the end, but their careers will be over! This is a deadly feud, and the targets of the hatred are those gentry and scholars! After all, the Jin Yiwei didn't intend to arrest so many people at the beginning, but you came to cause trouble, forcing the Jin Yiwei to take this step. I don't blame you for anyone!
Behind every official there is often a relatively powerful family or various connections. As a result, a group of local old haters and retired officials took down the pillars of our family or members of the faction. How can we not take revenge! Otherwise, how can we continue to mess around in the future?
Although it is said that the Ming Dynasty had a rule of being an official in a different place, officials had no local influence and sometimes even had to be controlled by the local gentry. But if their family exerts its efforts elsewhere and the succeeding officials take advantage of it and bite these gentry to death, they will never be able to bear it!
Even if there is reconciliation, the price to pay will be huge! After all, there are dozens of families or several factions that need to be appeased, which is no different from a broken family!
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